Breakdown of Welcher Architekt hat die Konstruktion für den Investor entworfen?
haben
to have
für
for
der
who, which, that (relative pronoun; die, das)
der Architekt
the architect
welcher
which (welcher, welche, welches, welchen, welchem...)
entwerfen
to design
die Konstruktion
the construction
der Investor
the investor
Questions & Answers about Welcher Architekt hat die Konstruktion für den Investor entworfen?
How could we use the grammar of this lesson to turn this action into an extended participle attribute?
You can turn the perfect tense action into an adjective phrase describing the construction. Take the past participle entworfen, add an adjective ending for die Konstruktion, and place the arguments right before it. For example: die von dem Architekten für den Investor entworfene Konstruktion (the construction designed for the investor by the architect).
Why is the past participle entworfen rather than geentworfen?
The verb entwerfen (to design/draft) has the inseparable prefix ent-. Verbs with inseparable prefixes (such as be-, ent-, er-, ver-, zer-) never take the ge- prefix when forming their past participles.
Why do we use Welcher here instead of another form like Welchen?
Welch- takes the same strong endings as the definite article. Because the architect is the one doing the designing, Architekt is the subject and must be in the nominative case. Since it is a masculine noun (der Architekt), it takes the masculine nominative ending -er, resulting in Welcher.
Why does Investor take the accusative case (den Investor)?
The case here is strictly dictated by the preposition für. In German, für belongs to a specific group of prepositions (along with durch, gegen, ohne, um) that always trigger the accusative case, no matter the context of the sentence.
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